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| Event | Premier League 2023-24 | ||||||
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| Date | Wednesday 4 December 2024 | ||||||
| Venue | Emirates Stadium, London | ||||||
| Player of the Match | William Saliba | ||||||
| Referee | Samuel Barrott | ||||||
| Attendance | 60,256 | ||||||
| Weather | 10 °C (50 °F) | ||||||
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Arsenal v Manchester United was a match which took place at Emirates Stadium on Wednesday 4 December 2024.
Team News[]
Arsenal[]
Arsenal will assess the fitness of Gabriel, Mikel Merino, Thomas Partey and Riccardo Calafiori but all four "want to play", according to manager Mikel Arteta.
Takehiro Tomiyasu remains out.
Manchester United[]
Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes is available after he was taken off as a precaution during the 4-0 win against Everton on Sunday.
Lisandro Martínez and Kobbie Mainoo are suspended as a result of accumulating five bookings for the season.
Leny Yoro could be involved in a Premier League matchday squad for the first time after recovering from a broken metatarsal.
Match facts[]
Head-to-head[]
- Arsenal can win four successive league games against Manchester United for the first time.
- United have lost seven of their past nine Premier League away games against Arsenal.
- Their four most recent competitive wins in this fixture were under different managers: Jose Mourinho (April 2018), Ole Gunnar Solskjaer (January 2019), Michael Carrick (December 2021) and Erik ten Hag (September 2022).
Arsenal[]
- This will be their 500th match in all competitions at the Emirates Stadium.
- Arsenal can win three successive league matches for the first time this season.
- They are unbeaten in 15 Premier League fixtures versus other established top-six opposition since a 4-1 defeat at Manchester City in April last year.
- The Gunners have scored eight of their past 11 Premier League goals before half-time, including all five goals against West Ham last Saturday.
- Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has won six of his nine Premier League games against Manchester United, with his first victory for the Gunners coming in this fixture in January 2020.
- Among managers to face the Red Devils at least five times in the Premier League, Arteta has the highest win rate of 67%.
- Bukayo Saka has scored three Premier League goals and set up two against United. Only Thierry Henry, with 12, has more goal involvements in this fixture for the Gunners.
- Saka and Kai Havertz are Arsenal's joint-leading Premier League goalscorers this campaign with five goals apiece. Eight of those 10 goals were netted at the Emirates Stadium.
- Since the start of last season, Arsenal’s 20 goals from corners and Gabriel’s five from corners are the most by a team and a single player in the Premier League.
Manchester United[]
- Manchester United can earn back-to-back Premier League victories for the first time this season.
- United have won six of their past seven midweek league matches, which have produced 38 goals in total.
- They have won just two of their last 18 Premier League games in London. Both victories were at Fulham courtesy of goals in stoppage time.
- Excluding the own goal by Leicester's Victor Kristiansen, United's last seven Premier League goals were assisted by either Amad Diallo, with four, or Bruno Fernandes, with three.
- Marcus Rashford has scored three goals in two league appearances under Ruben Amorim, following one in the previous 11 this season.
Match Report[]
Arsenal scored twice from corners to comfortably beat Manchester United as Ruben Amorim suffered his first defeat in English football.
Defenders Jurrien Timber and William Saliba did the damage as Arsenal took advantage of Liverpool dropping points to trim their lead at the top of the Premier League table.
Arsenal sit third with 28 points, level on that mark with Chelsea and seven behind Arne Slot's Reds.
The home side took the lead in the 53rd minute when Declan Rice’s corner was headed in at the near post by full-back Timber.
The Gunners then almost doubled their lead when United's Manuel Ugarte had to clear off the line after team-mate Joshua Zirkzee flicked on another Rice corner.
Saliba made sure of the win when Thomas Partey headed Bukayo Saka's corner against the French defender's back and the ball went past Andre Onana in the United goal.
Arsenal have become a force to be reckoned with from set-pieces under manager Mikel Arteta. Timber and Saliba's goals means they have scored 22 goals from corners since the start of last season, more than any other Premier League side.
Amorim's United did threaten the Arsenal goal when Diogo Dalot flashed a shot past David Raya's post in the first half, and the Arsenal keeper made an excellent save to deny Matthijs de Ligt in the second half.
Substitute Mikel Merino headed wide from another excellent Arsenal set-piece and Kai Havertz had an effort saved by Onana as the Gunners dominated the closing period of the match.
It meant that Amorim, who warned that a "storm will come" for United before this game, saw his three-game unbeaten start come to an end in north London.
Since losing back-to-back games to Inter Milan and Newcastle at the start of November, Arsenal have hit on a hot streak.
The return of Martin Odegaard has coincided with a five-match unbeaten run and Arteta's side are back to looking like title contenders.
This victory, in Arsenal's 500th match at Emirates Stadium, means they have won three successive league games for the first time this season.
Centre-back Gabriel Magalhaes was ruled out of this game through injury, and having scored in each of his last two games it was suspected by some that the team would miss his presence at free-kicks and corners.
However, that turned out not to be the case as his fellow defenders showed their own threat.
The set-piece goals came despite United practising how they would defend the Arsenal corners, and the home side looked like they could score from most dead-ball situations.
Raya was called upon to make a couple of good saves but, on the whole, this was a comfortable win for Arsenal.
Amorim, appointed on November 11 after the team's rocky start to the season, said before this game that United were "in a different point compared to Arsenal" and the Portuguese head coach was quite right.
United were extremely well organised and tough to break down in the first half, but you could still see the many frustrations Amorim has when his side did not do what he wanted.
Amorim prowled along the touchline throughout the game and gesticulated to his bench when the ball was not moved quickly enough when United had the chance to attack.
In their warm-up, United made a point of defending corners, knowing Arsenal carried such a great threat, but in the match itself they had little answer to those deliveries.
There was a positive for Amorim though as he was able to give £62m defender Leny Yoro his competitive United debut and the 19-year-old is going to be needed as Amorim looks to construct a team capable of troubling the Premier League elite.
Match[]
Details[]
| 4 December 2024 20:15 BST Live on Sky Sports |
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2–0 |  Manchester United
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Emirates Stadium, London Attendance: 60,256 Referee: Samuel Barrott |
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Timber  54'Saliba 73'
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Match Stats[]
| Arsenal | Manchester United |
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| Possession ball | |
| 50% | 50% |
| Shots | |
| 14 | 5 |
| Shots on target | |
| 6 | 2 |
| Corners | |
| 13 | 0 |
| Fouls | |
| 12 | 8 |
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